Gert Waldow

Gert Waldow (12 September 1892-7 May 1945) was the Gauleiter of Zrenjanin under Nazi Germany.

Biography
Gert Waldow was born in Frankfurt in the German Empire on 12 September 1892. Gert's brother Eckard was killed in action while fighting alongside Gert in the First Battle of the Somme in 1916 in World War I, and Gert remained the only child of his parents after the war. Waldow pursued a degree in law and was appointed as the Gauleiter of Zrenjanin in occupied Yugoslavia (present-day Serbia) in 1941 after Nazi Germany's occupation of Yugoslavia in World War II. Waldow was responsible for the execution of 300 Slavs and Yugoslav partisans over four years of occupation, and he was a hated figure. Waldow was arrested by the Yugoslav Army of National Liberation near Elemir to the north as he attempted to flee from Yugoslavia on 7 May 1945. Waldow was executed by firing squad for his crimes against humanity.